EU’s Michel Barnier calls Boris Johnson’s Brexit demands ‘unacceptable’
25 July 2019 - 22:27
Brussels — Michel Barnier, the European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator, warned member states on Thursday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s demands to change Britain’s withdrawal agreement were unacceptable.
“PM Johnson has stated that if an agreement is to be reached it goes by way of eliminating the backstop. This is of course unacceptable and not within the mandate of the European Council,” Michel Barnier wrote in an e-mail to EU ambassadors...
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